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During the short span of her career, Hazel Hall became one of the West's outstanding literary figures, a poet whose fierce, crystalline verse was frequently compared with that of Emily Dickinson. Her three books, published to critical acclaim in the 1920's, are reissued here in paperback for the first time. Together, they reintroduce an immediate and intensely honest voice, one that speaks to us with an edgy modernity.Confined to a wheelchair since childhood, Hall viewed life from the window of an upper room in her family's house in Portland, Oregon. To better observe passersby on the sidewalk, she positioned a small mirror on her windowsill. Hall was an accomplished seamstress: her fine needlework helped to support the family and provided a vivid body of imagery for her precisely crafted, often gorgeously embellished poems.Hall's writings - her mirror trained on the world - convey the dark undertones of the lives of working women in the early twentieth century, while bringing into focus her own private, reclusive life - her limited mobility, her isolation and loneliness, her gifts with needlework and words, and her exquisite grief. In his introduction to this volume, John Witte examines Hall's brief and brilliant career and highlights her remarkably modern sensibilities, showing her to be a poet for all time.

If you want to learn how to birdwatch, identify birds, and become a better birdwatcher, then check out HowExpert Guide to Birdwatching.HowExpert Guide to Birdwatching is a great way to gain deeper insight into some of the world's most interesting animals: birds. This guide has been written by an everyday expert with a passion for birds who, at one point, was also hoping to jump into the hobby of birding. At times, it can be difficult to start birdwatching. However, talking and learning from others can help This guide is organized with 101 tips to help you get better at birdwatching and become a master of identification, discovery, and birding science. There is advice from where to go birding to how to help birds out in the wild You'll learn about how birds survive and how their wonderful evolutions have made them some of the most resilient animals on the planet. Whether you are just starting to bird or are already a master, this guide has tips and tricks that will help you get even better HowExpert Guide to Birdwatching includes: - 101 tips about birdwatching from the perspective of an avid birdwatcher, arranged in a way that will help you advance your birding passion- Detailed descriptions and stories from first-hand birding experiences- Advice and ways to help birds in their natural habitatCheck out HowExpert Guide to Birdwatching if you want to learn how to birdwatch, identify birds, and become a better birdwatcher.About the AuthorHazel Hall has been a writer and avid birdwatcher for over seven years. She lives in rural New Hampshire, where she is currently in college. She is studying English and hopes to pursue a career in creative writing. Her love for animals, both domestic and wild, mixes heavily into all of her works.HowExpert publishes how to guides by everyday experts.

Hazel Hall is not afraid to push boundaries as she explores the traditional sonnet, its connections with classical Japanese forms, and their shared musicality. She points out similarities between these forms, but also celebrates their differences. This collection includes sonnets with haiku or tanka attached, a sonnet using the same rhyme throughout, a sonnet created with fourteen lines of single-line haiku and a fourteen line ghazal in iambic pentameter. Hazel also experiments with rhyming styles, returning to basic concepts of melody and rhyme in her quest to discover 'At what point is a sonnet not a sonnet' She observes that the sonnet form is barely recognisable in some of her hybrids. Do you agree? Readers are invited to draw their own conclusions. They are also invited to experiment for themselves.According to Beethoven, once you know the rules, you can break them. When it comes to traditional end-lines, octave, sestet and pentameter in a sonnet, Hazel Hall is well practiced. However, her unrhymed experimental free-verse, haibun as sonnets, along with combinations of other Japanese genres like tanka in this collection, not only give credence to Beethoven's affirmation.